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Welsh UFO Sightings 1894

Welsh UFO sightings from 1894. For sightings from other years please click HERE . January 25th 1894, 21:30 Llanthomas Fort wrote in New Lands (1923) of lights associated with earthquake activity. 'At Llanthomas and Clifford, towns less than 20 miles west of Hereford, a brilliant light was seen in the sky, an explosion was heard, and a quake was felt. Half an hour later ... at Stokesay Vicarage, Shropshire, was seen ... an illumination so brilliant that for half a minute everything was almost as visible as by daylight.' PRESS April 1894 Newport The South Wales Echo (23/04/1894) reported that a house in Mountjoy Street was said to be haunted - and that a group of boys who had taken to loitering and keeping watch for the ghost had broken all the windows by throwing stones. Charles Edwards was lucky to get the case dismissed from the police court with a caution. WATCHING FOR A GHOST. A juvenile delusion at Newport - An impr
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Guardian Fanzine

Guardian was a multifandom (primarily Trek and Star Wars) fanzine launched by Mazeltough Press in August 1978. The first four and the last three are fairly standard zines, but the fifth is a full length Star Wars fan novel by Fern Marder and Carol Walske. 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 #01. August 1978. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #02. September 1979. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #03. May 1981. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #04. May 1982. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #05. February 1983. Free pdf download at The Sandy Herald Collection . #06. May 1984. Free pdf download at The Sandy Herald Collection . #07. January 1986. Some pages are available at Fanlore . #08. December 1988. Some pages are available at Fanlore . For more like this please click the image below:
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Time Warp Cover Guide

Time Warp was a multifandom (though primarily Trek and Star Wars) fanzine launched in 1977 and lasted seven issues, with the last printed in 1984. Read more about it at Fanlore . 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 xx #01. April 1977. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #02. 1978. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #03. 1979. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #04. 1980. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #05. 1981. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #06. 1984. Read it online at the Internet Archive . #07. 1984. Read it online at the Internet Archive . For more like this please click the image below:
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Life in Plastic - 10/07/2022

What a week it's been! Westminster politics has been a non-stop whirlwind of disaster, and I finally managed to binge watch the new Obi Wan Kenobi series. If you haven't seen it yet, it's 100% awesome. I definitely recommend. Black Series have already announced various figures, including a badass looking Reva, but I'm still holding out for a baby!Leia. 1/12 child figures are always in short supply. Hasbro Black Series 6" Reva figure. I need it. I usually rebody my Black Series heads onto bare action figure bodies but, as ever, the lack of dark skinned models is proving very frustrating. Damtoys do a male body now, but I still haven't seen anywhere with a black female body. ( Heidi Ott used to do one but they go for stupid money these days.) *sigh* Trawling the net did reveal some cool 1/12 upcoming releases though. Phicen have an August release date slated for their new 'plump' female bodies, complete with a bunch of new head sculpts in realist
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Loving Fanfiction

Bit of a different take on a Fandom Friday for you this week... A few years ago I took part in a fandom survey and a series of follow up interviews with Dr. Brit Kelly (then the writing lab leader at King's College London and now a lecturer at UC Davis) on how my relationship with and understanding of family impacted on my fanfic writing - and vice versa. If I come across a relevant fandom survey I'll usually participate, no doubt a hangover from all the GPT retail surveys I've done in my time, but this was the first one I'd become more involved with. It was actually quite a weird experience, looking at my writing from a more critical standpoint than 'I liked this thing so I wrote about it', and then reading someone else's analysis of it beyond 'hey, I liked that thing too!' I won't quote from it as it'll make it totally obvious what my penname is but, yeah, it felt very strange. Anyway, the book was published in May last year and ha
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